Badger is an old railroad station on Fairbanks-Eilson section of the Alaska Railroad, 8 miles southeast of Fairbanks. Named by personnel of the Alaska Railroad in 1949: "So called because it is in the vicinity of the Old Badger Road."

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Badger is a CDP in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. It is unincorporated, but is one of the larger communities in Alaska and would be considered a major city if it were incorporated and outside the Fairbanks North Star Borough.